Sunday Morning “Fin du Weekend” Links

by | Nov 29, 2020 | Daily Links | 254 comments

Dammit, I really need more time. I’ve barely caught up on sleep, there’s liquor undrunk, and I still haven’t purged my body of the high fat stuff we… ummm… stuffed ourselves with. Four days is not enough, we need to do the French “permanent vacation” approach to work. Are you with me?

Birthdays today include someone who was far, far ahead of xis time; a guy who had an effect on us all; a dude who was like totally tubular; a mere Christian; a decidedly non-heroic mulatto who was crooked even by congressional standards; one of the great composers of the 20th century; a C&W guy from the golden age of C&W; the one who couldn’t sing; a guy known for discovering talent and who was kicking ass well into his eighties; a guy I referenced numerous times yesterday; the Pride of Mega-Lo-Mart; a woman that Teddy Kennedy didn’t kill; one of my absolute favorite filmmakers; and an authoritarian piece of shit who will probably get retreaded during the Biden administration.

Enough of that, let’s see what’s happening nowadays:

 

More targets for Kyler Murray?

 

“Now do the Illuminati.”

 

“Wait, we have to do our jobs?!?!”

 

More institutional racism from the police.

 

“My god, it’s full of sta… wait, what?”

 

Fuck you and your models. Go die in a fire.

 

Old Guy Music is one of many songs with horses as a metaphor. Which I don’t get because horses are big dumb assholes. No matter, this is a great version of a great song, and Clarence White would be on any short-list of Greatest Rock Guitarists and here shows why.

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Old Man With Candy

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254 Comments

  1. Shpip

    The statement said the increase in COVID patients, seasonal illnesses and likelihood of large gathering over the holidays is “a perfect storm that will lead to increased spread and deaths.”

    So… just like every other flu season in history, yes?

    • WTF

      Strangely, seasonal flu deaths have declined by 98%.

    • rhywun

      Quiet, you.

    • leon

      This is not a flu!!!

  2. PieInTheSky

    “Now do the Illuminati.” – I mean I agree moderns architecture is kinda crap bring stone back

  3. PieInTheSky

    So what is everyone drinking?

    rotenberg merlot classic 2012

    It’s not bad but I find it a bit pricey… I blame the … well you know

    • Tres Cool

      Milwaukee’s Beast Diet….$14.99/30 cans
      I find it cost-effective.

      • PieInTheSky

        one those US cryptids I believe

      • PieInTheSky

        that says Best

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Milwaukee’s Best, the name says it all,
        Tall Cans!

      • Tres Cool

        HEY YUFUS!

    • Old Man With Candy

      Last night, we had a bottle of Edmunds St John “Bone Jolly,” an absolutely terrific Gamay.

      • Ted S.

        I had a Monastrell with burgers last night.

    • leon

      It’s freaking 6 AM.

      I’m still in bed

      • PieInTheSky

        fake news

    • Gender Traitor

      A “skinny” chai latte made with skim milk. #GlibFit…ish. Low fat, but not necessarily low carb.

      • PieInTheSky

        skim milk is water lying about being milk.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Check out Razvan Swanson over here…

  4. leon

    I imagine the whole “secret club” puts a damper on recruitment.

    • Shpip

      This is a trend that has been going on for a while now.

      Freemasons / Shriners, Elks, Lions, Sertoma, Knights of Columbus, the Rotary…

      • Ted S.

        Part of it is government taking over the service functions a lot of these groups used to do.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’s part that and part the internet, you don’t have to meet in real life to find people with similar interests anymore.

      • Ted S.

        The internet may be accelerating it, but I think it was starting well before then.

      • Gender Traitor

        What the world needs now is more Odd Fellows!

      • Tejicano

        If somebody says they “can’t even” does that make them odd?

      • Tres Cool

        Germantown has an Order. Or at least did.

      • Tres Cool

        Oh….don’t forget that we also have an ‘Ancient Order of Druids’ “grove”.

      • Gender Traitor

        Three Roads Grove is currently not accepting new members

        : (

      • Tres Cool

        /shreds application

      • Fourscore

        Odd Fellows/Inclusive Glibs

      • Fourscore

        Boy Scouts, recruited girls,’Bi-scouts?

  5. leon

    “The monolith was removed by an “unknown party” sometime Friday night, the agency said in a Facebook post.”

    I’m not saying it was aliens but…

  6. leon

    Each week I think I can’t get more over this covid stuff, and each week I get proven wrong.

  7. Shpip

    SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Faulting inaction in Washington, governors and state lawmakers are racing to get pandemic relief to small-business owners, the unemployed, renters and others whose livelihoods have been upended by the widening coronavirus outbreak.

    Well, considering that it wasn’t “Washington” that prohibited people from going to work and earning money, maybe governors and state legislatures should step up to the plate.

    • TARDis

      More like step up to the gallows. Or guillotine. Or chopping block.

    • leon

      Heh. Though I could see an argument that since much of business goes through major cities in a few states, even if only those states had closed down it could lead to effects across the nation.

      In other words NY deserves to bail out the rest of the country.

    • rhywun

      it wasn’t “Washington” that prohibited people from going to work and earning money

      Trump’s ineptitude at whipping the virus made them do it.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s a short summary of their entire argument.

  8. leon

    “a woman that Teddy Kennedy didn’t kill; ”

    I mean that could be almost anyone.

  9. Ted S.

    a dude who was like totally tubular

    It’s not Mike Oldfield’s birthday?

  10. leon

    Did the horse have a name?

    • Old Man With Candy

      “Alpo.”

  11. leon

    the one who couldn’t sing;

    Are you Garfunkeling him right now?

    • Fourscore

      Get your own bow tie…

  12. The Late P Brooks

    “Even as cases have exploded across the country, Congress and the president have not yet passed much-needed relief for people,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said in announcing the session. “Here in Colorado, we want to do the best with what we have to take care of our own.”

    This sort of nonsensical jabber makes my brain hurt.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    “It’s just heartbreaking what they’re allowing to happen with no federal government intervention,” said Washington state House Speaker Laurie Jinkins, a Democrat.

    Send in the National Guard to force the governors to end the lockdowns and superstitious plague theater? I concur.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    The surge in COVID-19 cases in Arizona have university researchers urging state leaders to implement a 3-week shelter-in-place order and statewide mask mandate.

    The University of Arizona’s COVID Modeling Team sent a letter Friday to the Arizona Department of Health Services.

    These people are evil.

    • leon

      “The surge in COVID-19 cases in Arizona have university researchers urging state leaders to implement a 3-week shelter-in-place”

      Did their model assume 100% compliance?

      I want to see these models before we are ruled by them, they need to be attacked and put to the test be hostile review. The scientists and politicians behind them acting aghast that anyone would question them are simply nefarious.

      This covid thing had made me even more sure that any (esp. climate) scientist who won’t share models and data are lying.

      • juris imprudent

        Don’t you know that scientists are pure of heart and never, ever put their knowledge to evil uses. Oh wait, that only applies to scientists on the public payroll, corporate science is chock full of evil.

      • leon

        Government is the holy force that sanctifies money.

      • Fourscore

        …unholy force that steals your money…

      • Not an Economist

        You wouldn’t be able to get the model to work. They require hand-finessing by experts to get the proper results.

      • Atanarjuat

        You know who else is an expert at hand-finessing models?

      • DrOtto

        Robert Kraft?

      • R C Dean

        By the time you carve out the essential workers and the total inability to enforce it, a shelter in place order is just a press release announcing a new theatrical production.

  15. Tres Cool

    “Katie Baez, Whitaker’s sister, said Thursday was the first time her family had Thanksgiving Day without her brother. She said the expected payout will not replace her brother and the loss of love.”

    Then make a deal where you sue for $1, and they admit guilt, and the officer is charged for capital murder as part of the bargain.

    *SLD- I concur that the family should wring every penny out of the taxpayer’s and the city’s insurance that they can. But if you’re making the argument that “its not about the money”, then prove it

    • Old Man With Candy

      The cop has immunity so that deal can’t happen.

      • Tres Cool

        I dont know about AZ, but even Ohio has limits on it. The Ray Tensing – Sam DuBose case showed that a cop can still be held criminally liable for misconduct. However, the powers-at-work know this (say, elected officials and prosecutors that count on the FOP support) and (IMO) deliberately overcharged in that case, as insurance he wouldn’t be guilty.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Samuel_DuBose

        Besides, let a guy dream.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    “The monolith was removed by an “unknown party” sometime Friday night, the agency said in a Facebook post.”

    That obelisk belongs to the government!

    • leon

      Well BLM claims they didn’t remove it because it was private property. So as much as you trust BLM…

  17. The Late P Brooks

    “The election’s over,” Benninghoff said. “This is not a time for finger-pointing.”

    Let’s not bicker over ‘oo bankrupted ‘oo…

    • Ted S.

      And yet Benninghoff is finger pointing.

  18. CPRM

    The sidebar on the monolith story said David Prowse has died. Now the Dark side is all that is left of Vader.

  19. PieInTheSky

    The local church lost a court case for the various stuff that normally goes on tomorrow which is St Andrew’s day here which is the patron saint of Romania and apparently a bunch of other countries

    • Atanarjuat

      Huh. I grew up on St. Andrew’s Bay in Florida. Never knew anything about him.

      Sorry about the loss of freedom. How bad are the lockdowns there?

      • PieInTheSky

        medium I would say.

    • Shpip

      So will everybody in Romania celebrate Ziua Sfîntului Andrei by staying home this year?

      • PieInTheSky

        probably. Also the national day on December first.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      ???????

  20. The Late P Brooks

    I want to see these models before we are ruled by them, they need to be attacked and put to the test be hostile review. The scientists and politicians behind them acting aghast that anyone would question them are simply nefarious.

    “According to my model, my model is correct.”

    QED, bro.

    • Chafed

      Ain’t that the truth.

  21. PieInTheSky

    CEASE AND DESIST. I NEVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD HAPPEN!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_AzMLhPF1Q&t=101s

    Not that I am interested in making my own cheese, but I would not follow a YouTube channel for which the fan base is known as “curd nerds”

    • leon

      Sounds like an honest OnkyFans group name.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    What are we drinking? Coffee. From Colombia.

    • Ted S.

      Juan Valdez grows coca.

      • Tres Cool

        I GOT BAKIN’ SODA !

    • PieInTheSky

      I prefer the African stuff

      • Tres Cool

        You know who else preferred African “stuff” ?

      • leon

        Napoleon?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Mick Jagger?

      • Tres Cool

        + Brown Sugar

      • Atanarjuat

        Chicks with Queen of Spades tattoos?

      • Tres Cool

      • DrOtto

        Bill Maher?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Coffee from Costco. 5/10 probably won’t buy again once this bag is gone.

      • TARDis

        Which brand? We used to like Seattle Mountain, but it got discontinued.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Kirkland organic Guatemalan.

        Not very smooth and more bitter than I like.

      • TARDis

        Never tried it. We get the Don Pedro, but from Amazon S & S. I think Costco has it too.

      • blackjack

        And that’s alright with me…

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I’m done with van life,

    • Fourscore

      Old joke

      Cowboy 1: “All West Texas needs is water”

      Cowboy 2: “That’s all Hell needs, too”

      • Don escaped Two Corinthians

        If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell ― Sheridan.

    • R C Dean

      Yeah, the big time drought in the 50s closed down a lot of small West Texas towns. Permanently changed the landscape, too. Many wells, springs, and creeks went permanently dry, mesquite took over hundreds of square miles, etc.

  23. juris imprudent

    So this is a good run through on all of the complaints about the election.

    It comes down to MI, WI and GA – doesn’t include PA. And interestingly the whole story is on the vote counts (and reporting) – no assertions of vote fraud itself.

    • Atanarjuat

      Our analysis finds that a few key vote updates in competitive states were unusually large in size and had an unusually high Biden-to-Trump ratio. We demonstrate the results differ enough from expected results to be cause for concern.

      The fact that it only happened in key swing states is very suspicious too. (Georgia used to not be one but due to the growth of Atlanta I guess it is considered up for grabs now.) You don’t see the spikes in deep blue states or deep red states. Well, if you were adding fraudulent ballots to tip an election, you would target close contests.

      • blackjack

        It’s very wordy way of saying this election smells worse that the bottom of the dumpster at a fishmongers shop.

      • Q Continuum

        I don’t get how any of this is controversial. OF COURSE they cheated; they had to. You know they were up against someone LITERALLY WORSE THAN HITLER. Is it “by any means necessary” except voter fraud? There’s been one side consistently against any sort of vote security at all and pushing for more and more mail-in bullshit with no chain of custody. Not to mention abolishing the EC to make winning by fraud much easier overall.

        The punchline: nothing will happen and this is the way things are now. Time to get over the fact that we have a third world voting system now.

      • Gender Traitor

        Many third world voting systems are more secure than ours. ::holds up inky thumb::

      • blackjack

        What’s funny is, how they knew the media would have their backs and they were so blatant about it. They didn’t even lift a finger to campaign. If nothing happens, we are maximally screwed.

    • Tres Cool

      Well, he’s not Nancy Reagan. But I think the psychic should have a cabinet position.

    • Plinker762

      The hard hitting news this country needs.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Hate speech, twatsplained
    TW: Vox

    Parler, which has been around since 2018, looks at first glance a lot like Twitter and Facebook. Open the app, there are profiles pushing doubt about the 2020 election’s results and declarations that the mainstream tech platforms are targeting free speech. With just a few clicks, it’s easy to find even more extreme right-wing voices and hate speech. Overall, the site appears like an amalgamation of some of the most odious factions of social media, centralized on one platform that’s attracted millions of users.

    ——-

    As it’s grown, Parler has become a way station for hate speech and misinformation that Twitter and Facebook wouldn’t allow. The site is also where many Trump supporters are spreading the false narrative that the 2020 presidential election was rigged. The burgeoning influence of Parler is part of a broader trend of fringe outlets like One America News and Newsmax hoping to reel in an audience of Trump loyalists, especially after he leaves office.

    ——-

    But despite the recent attention, some say the rise of Parler fits into the larger history of American conservatives and their relationship with the media.

    “This follows a pattern of what the right wing has done [since] the rise of talk radio in the ’80s, and then through live cable TV, and then the rise of social media,” Lawrence Rosenthal, the chair of the University of California Berkeley’s Center for Right-Wing Studies, told Recode. “In each case, what you found is that the right wing gives up on participating in mainstream media and creates an alternative universe.”

    And so on and so forth. Anything not universally approved by left wing media gatekeepers is odious fringe paranoia and racism.

    Parler is making hate great again.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      People who get abused by one site will migrate to another site where they aren’t abused? Who could have seen that coming?

    • leon

      ““In each case, what you found is that the right wing gives up on participating in mainstream media and creates an alternative universe””

      Gives up. Gets banned. Tohmato tahmato.

      It’s fun to see the left get worked up over the alternatives that are friendly to conservatives because they don’t like anyone leaving their control.

    • TARDis

      Their arrogance is like derp. It is infinite.

    • Q Continuum

      Blah blah blah.

      Who gives a flying fuck what Vox thinks?

      They’re a joke.

      • rhywun

        Who gives a flying fuck what Vox thinks?

        An alarmingly large number of people do. That’s the problem.

      • Agent Cooper

        I keep seeing their banner ads for “the value of explanatory journalism.”

        Explanatory journalism?

        No thanks. I can make up my own mind.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Berkeley has a Center for Right-Wing Studies? ?

      • blackjack

        They’re very busy, between Hitler and the candidacy of Mitt Romney.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Scroll through the platform, and content ranges from standard Republican talking points to conspiracy theories and hate speech. Recode identified users of the site promoting Holocaust denialism, Nazism, QAnon, and all sorts of other offensive content. Parler has also become a home for an alleged Russian disinformation campaign, which the platform said it would not take down because it hadn’t heard from US law enforcement.

    “When you have this sort of mingling, and common cause, between extremists and non-extremists, I think that’s what makes it a bit different and unique,” said Oren Segal, the vice president of the ADL Center on Extremism. Segal says that he doesn’t think the platform itself is extremist, but that it does allow such content to proliferate.

    “You have certain elements on the platform that talk about stolen elections and illegitimate elections and disinformation or misinformation more broadly,” Segal explained. “That is not only animating some of those who are on the platform who are not extremists, but it’s actually the lifeblood of extremists.”

    It’s like subliminal advertising. You go to Parler looking for Ted Cruz’ explanation of a vote, and before you know it, you’re a foaming-at-the-mouth white supremacist.

    • TARDis

      These demented stains on humanity really do want a cleansing, don’t they?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Linking those who think this election was a bit fishy and Holocaust denialism is a nice touch. The ADL is nothing but a radical leftist front group with a yarmulke.

      • Q Continuum

        “The ADL is nothing but a radical leftist front group with a yarmulke.”

        Hello, I’m the entirety of the Reform Judaism movement. How may I help you?

    • leon

      The problem it’s that the mainstream has adopted an extremist ideology that all deviant thought must be eradicated. These “anti-extremist” groups are wofully inept way combating extremism, because they refuse to even give the people who flock to it a second of time. They won’t listen to the legitimate and illegitimate concerns of people, but constantly condescend, and demonize them.

      If I was wearing a tin foil hat I’d say they do it on purpose to foment unrest and get donations.

      • Q Continuum

        And herein lies the issue: all those people you “deplatform” aren’t disappearing. Take a young man (and they’re typically young men) with squishy non-leftist views and keep chasing him further and further underground, eventually he will start adopting truly extremist views.

        Ask the Middle East what happens to young, alienated men with extremist views.

      • leon

        Yup. And not to get on the “wo is the plight of the young man”, but there are reasons for it. The modern high school graduate had spent 12 years being educated by an establishment that treats any form of boyishness and growth into masculinity with hostility. Young men do not have the tools or training to be men.

        And this falls on older men too who have failed to properly mentor the younger generation.

        I had this realization the other day that part of the reason why there is such an urge by the young to share and be an internet staff is that those are the people that they have constantly been exposed too. So that is the role model for them. The YouTube star is the modern Rockstar.

      • Shpip

        The modern high school graduate had spent 12 years being educated by an establishment that treats any form of boyishness and growth into masculinity with hostility.

        That’s been noted for a while, now. The government school systems in particular treat boys like dysfunctional girls. How much this has to do with said schools be run by and for women is up for debate.

        And this falls on older men too who have failed to properly mentor the younger generation.

        For too many older men, they can only get their mentoring done one weekend a month and two weeks during the summer.

      • Gustave Lytton

        For too many older men, they can only get their mentoring done one weekend a month and two weeks during the summer.

        That’s just steering them into becoming nasty girls.

  26. TARDis

    I got my birthday/anniversary/Christmas gift Friday. At first I was quite skeptical, considering the cost. I has a little difficulty getting the pass-through camera to function, but now I am pleased.

    Alyx!

    • Q Continuum

      Is there any other application beyond porn?

      • TARDis

        I’m hoping for a simulation where I get to slap the stupid out of virtual avatars of people we know and dislike.

        I wish my wife could use a VR headset, but she gets instant motion sickness. It would be fun to have a shared imaginative interactive story adventure. “Sorry, I didn’t save you from that pterodactyl, honey!

      • l0b0t

        #metoo Every time I’ve tried a VR setup, I get queasy and dizzy within about 10 minutes.

    • Fourscore

      Happy Birthday/Anniversary/Merry Christmas, Tard is, not sure what your gift is but as long as it makes you happy, that is the most important thing.

      One year my brothers and I wanted indoor plumbing for Christmas. We got a sister instead.

      • Q Continuum

        “One year my brothers and I wanted indoor plumbing for Christmas. We got a sister instead.”

        I… uhhh….

      • Gender Traitor

        I guess you could kinda say SHE had “indoor” plumbing.

      • TARDis

        GT! Off the top rope! ?

      • TARDis

        Virtual Reality set.

        BTW today marks 30 years of (mostly) blissful harmony. I wish we would have reproduced early in our marriage so I could be retired now.

      • Gender Traitor

        Mazel tov! Tom T & I have our first 25th (two ceremonies a few months apart) late next month.

      • TARDis

        Thanks, and congrats to you two.

      • Tundra

        Congrats to you and GT! Next month is 29 for us.

        Time flies, man.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    So apparently there was a ruling that throwing out a bunch of late, or error-filled, or unreadable ballots constitutes “disenfranchising” voters.

    If you flip that coin, doesn’t that mean you are disenfranchising the people who voted on time and filled out their ballots correctly and legibly?

    I hate ass-backwards reasoning.

    • Atanarjuat

      Ok, if late ballots are acceptable, I’d like to submit mine for the Bush v Gore race.

      I can’t believe they would make such an absurd ruling. Obviously after Jan 20 is too late, so there is a hard cut off. Why not make it on election day?

    • leon

      I’d argue that it’s disengenouos to say that it is okay for courts, who have no authority, to change laws around the election that ends up disenfranchising voters by adding non-compliant ballots, but bad if the legislatures changed how the electoral votes are allocated after the election.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Doesn’t matter, all of these rulings regardless of which direction they go are just the paving stones on the road to the Supreme Court.

      • Urthona

        I don’t see how the Supreme Court is going to do anything. It’s the states’ business. If they want to allow unverified mail
        in ballots, the state may do so. If the state wants no poll watchers they may do that as well. You lose the state battles you’ve already lost.

      • blackjack

        That disenfranchises the opposite voters. Equal protection is violated. The state can’t just pick a candidate via the election officials and proclaim them the winner against the wishes of half of the electorate. What would stop, say, California from declaring that all EC votes go the dem in perpetuity?

    • Fourscore

      He’s a pen pal, not a lover.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Trump’s fault!

    Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis and his spouse have tested positive for Covid-19 and are both asymptomatic, according to a statement from the governor’s office.
    “This evening, Governor Polis and First Gentleman (Marlon) Reis learned that they have tested positive for COVID-19,” the statement reads.
    Both are feeling well and will continue to isolate in their home, according to the statement.
    “Marlon and I are feeling well so far, and are in good spirits. No person or family is immune to this virus. I urge every Coloradan to practice caution, limit public interactions, wear a mask in public, stay six feet from others, and wash your hands regularly,” Polis said.

    Perform the rituals. Believe the Gospel. Fear the plague gods.

    • Agent Cooper

      “I urge every Coloradan to practice caution, limit public interactions, wear a mask in public, stay six feet from others, and wash your hands regularly”

      Worked so well for him …

  29. Q Continuum

    “With no action by Washington, states race to offer virus aid”

    How bout this dipshits? Let the business owners engage in commerce! It’s so crazy it might just work…

    “Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said the state took action to help residents ‘who have real issues about keeping food on their table, a roof over their head.'”

    She is beyond a shitstain. Shut everything down in sooper-draconian fashion then blame the FedGov for not bailing out the people she’s preventing from working. It’s the embodiment of the prog wet dream; regulate all private enterprise out of existence and replace it with handouts from Big Daddy.

  30. Q Continuum

    Based on the tone of that NPR article, I guess the Freemasons are just some right-wing nutjobs.

    • Q Continuum

      More: “How do you get the message of, yes, there is a place where you can go where people aren’t at each other’s throats, there’s a place that deliberately stops the kind of arguments that are making your life miserable.”

      If people stop wanting to kill one another over politics, how will NPR and the rest of the agit-prop media get any eyeballs!?! We can’t have that! Time to label them white supremacist and be done with it.

    • hoof_in_mouth

      I’d like to be a Mason but I am kind of burned out on being in / managing the decline of failing organizations. One of my friends is a Shriner, one of his jobs is tracking down all their little cars and such that belong to the org but guys die and their kids or widows sell or junk them. He had to go to court because the guy that kept the semi died and they weren’t allowed to retrieve it, was a 15+ year ordeal, it was just sitting and decomposing in a field with 50 cars in it.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    The governors of Nevada, Virginia and Missouri have all tested positive for the virus in recent months, underscoring the scale of the spread of the virus across the nation.
    Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this month. In September, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, and his wife tested positive, as did Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, and his wife.
    The US death count from coronavirus has risen to more than 266,000 deaths as of Saturday, as cases continue to surge across the country. A fresh wave of restrictions has been put in place in communities across the nation in an attempt to slow the spread.

    Those governors and their families- all dead, right?

    No one escapes. No one survives.

    • Q Continuum

      Only the Republican ones.

      The Democrats offered animal sacrifices to SCIENCE, the blood cleansing them of their sins and were healed.

  32. Trigger Hippie

    So I watched the Netflix series Barbarians last night. If you haven’t, don’t bother. Very heavy on the melodrama/fictional personal lives of the characters with only a touch of truth behind it. And the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, the only thing that could have saved the series was completely wasted(SPOILERS!!!) on shitty movie-geared close ups of hand to hand/individual combat battles that looks nothing like real battle 2000 years ago. Add in an emotional speech delivered to a severed head weirdly spliced through the battle scenes and the whole thing degenerated into an absolute shitshow.

    • LJW

      I think the whole ancient rome through medieval times genre is burning itself out thanks to Netflix. How many series can they make?

      • Trigger Hippie

        ‘How many series can they make?’

        As many that can still squeeze some money out of the waning popularity of Game of Thrones?

    • Atanarjuat

      shitty movie-geared close ups of hand to hand/individual combat battles that looks nothing like real battle 2000 years ago

      I’m pretty sure armies, as they closed with one another, split off individually to drop their spears and duel enemy soldiers one on one with sidearms.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Realism doesn’t get views, overchoreographed Hollywood bullshit does.

      • Atanarjuat

        An overchoreographed pike formation or Roman testudo could be quite dramatic. Also imagine an overhead view of any two ancient armies front ranks closing in a historically accurate way. It would be unforgettable. Hollywood is just full of mediocre know-nothings.

      • Trigger Hippie

        So much this. Add a few cut scenes of the main characters in critical points of impact in a battle but otherwise keep the cameras on the grand scale. It works beautifully as a visual while playing games like Total War, so why wouldn’t it work in a cinematic setting?

        ‘An overchoreographed pike formation or Roman testudo could be quite dramatic.’

        There was a small battle near the beginning of the film The Eagle that had a cool, if not really historically accurate for the situation, testudo scene. It would have been really cool to see on a larger scale.

      • Trigger Hippie

        It’s the only honorable thing to do, I hear.

      • Trigger Hippie

        …dammit. I hate when I unconsciously parrot a sentence I just read…sorry, Q.

      • Trigger Hippie

        The “I hear”.

        Sometimes I’ll end or begin a sentence the exact same way one of you all did after reading the comment….it bugs me when I do that. USE MY OWN WORDS!!! ME TRY!!!

      • Trigger Hippie

        Arg#%67●■♤}\ghll!!!!

  33. l0b0t

    Public Universal Friend is something of which I was unaware; fascinating stuff.

    • Q Continuum

      They’s an animal in the sack I hear.

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘Public Universal Friend’

      Boy, hookers sure are getting uppity with their job title nowadays.

      • l0b0t

        IKR, it would make a great Grindr handle.

      • leon

        I think “Customer Satisfaction Engineer” is the more Polite term now-a-days

    • l0b0t

      That was FABULOUS!!! Ted Lyons & His Cubs sure can rock.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Good grief. Chuck Todd is such a melodramatic whiny twat.

    Won’t someone think of those poor overworked health care providers? They’re overworked and underappreciated.

    • Tres Cool

      The same ones that were laying everyone off 5 months ago ?

    • Trigger Hippie

      I’d care more if so many of them weren’t such sanctimonious twats about a job they voluntarily go.

    • rhywun

      Time to go back to rattling pans out your windows at 7 o’clock every night.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Holy fuck where do they find these screeching retards?

    And now- Saint Foochy, PBUH. Save us, Foochy!

  36. The Late P Brooks

    “I don’t want to sound like I’m blaming it all on the President, but… isn’t this all the President’s fault?”

    • Q Continuum

      The guy lost. Mission accomplished. Why do they need to keep flogging the dead horse?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        They blamed Bush for all of “unexpectedly” bad economic news for 8 years. They’ll have to blame Trump for the entirety of Kamala’s 10 years.

  37. Gdragon

    I just saw a headline about the PA Lieutenant Governor yapping off about how Trump is going to get his “clock cleaned” if he goes to the Supreme Court. There was a picture of the dude and something occurred to me. Wasn’t he the (far left) mayor of whatever shithole town he’s from that threatened to “take it outside” when The Jacket hurt his feelings on Bill Maher years ago?

      • Gender Traitor

        Odds that he’s criticized Trump for being “crude” or “boorish” (or words to that effect?)

      • Gdragon

        I knew it! No surprise at all that he’s moved up in the party ranks of course.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    We have to distribute the vaccine in an equitable way. Trannys and POCs first.

    Oh, nice. More bullshit about asymptomatic superspreaders.

  39. Q Continuum

    Life is significantly better now that I have a Bloody Maria.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Admiral Mullen, isn’t Donald Trump a greater threat to world peace than Adolph Hitler?

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Just like Hitler, all of those peace treaties are just a prelude to war.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        I really do hope Trump just pulls out of Afghanistan before Biden takes office.

      • Q Continuum

        You know who else pulled out?

      • rhywun

        The generals won’t let him. I wish that was a joke.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    The Pentagon is crawling with dead-ender Trumpistas!

    They’ll leave us DEFENSELESS!!!

    • PieInTheSky

      she was kind of cute before destroying herself

  42. The Late P Brooks

    What are the shit flinging howler monkeys going to do when they don’t have President Cartoon Villain to kick around?

    What will they talk about? Whom will they vilify?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Anyone that opposes their ‘mandate”

      • Q Continuum

        If Trump does not exist, they will have to invent him.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        + 2 minutes of hate.

      • rhywun

        They’re literally making lists.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I am sure Top Men have always made their lists in the smoke filled backrooms. Difference is it is displayed and herald today for all to see and encouraged by the sycophant in the media.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Hoarders, kulaks, and saboteurs? May as well go with the classics.

    • hayeksplosives

      They will still strut around, flapping their wings and clucking about some imaginary sleight, since there are no actual cartoon villains.

      I don’t expect them to go calmly back into living harmoniously with others. They’ve been so stoked up by Dem activists in order to help take Trump down, or to participate in BLM activities, shout down pro-Liberty speakers, etc, that they can’t just switch it off.

      The howler monkeys, now victorious in the election and thus not having any real complaints or anxieties, will just overreact to increasingly mundane “offenses” such as racistly mispronouncing VP Harris’s name, or finding any company or institution that doesn’t have sufficient diversity.

    • hayeksplosives

      I’m sure the Biden administration will send Iran a gift basket as soon as possible so that we can return to looking the other way when Iran shirks its commitments re: nuclear program, funding Hezbolla, etc.

      It’s what Val Jar would have wanted…

    • Old Man With Candy

      Extraordinary detail about Fakhrizadeh’s final moments have been revealed by Iranian journalist Mohamad Ahwaze who claims he received leaked information from the country’s authorities.

      /checks sources

      OK, so clearly legit.

    • Urthona

      I just assumed it was a roving gang of rival nuclear scientists.

    • rhywun

      Harvard grad

      LOL of course.

      What a bitch.

    • leon

      All these great conservative icons did their duty and made sure their children are all Leftist creeps.

      • Fatty Bolger

        They did what they had to do in order to gain power and wealth, so that their children could be raised in and be a part of gentle society.

  43. egould310

    Finally, Old Guy Music gets it right. Good tune.

    • Tundra

      +1 Rickenbacker

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Cracks appear?

    A judge has denied the Gallatin City-County Board of Health’s request for a temporary restraining order against the Rocking R Bar and set a date for a hearing in the lawsuit between the two entities.

    Gallatin County District Court Judge John Brown denied the request on Friday. He set the hearing for 9 a.m. on Dec. 15 in Gallatin County District Court.

    The county board of health filed a lawsuit earlier this week against the Rocking R Bar because the bar was intentionally remaining open past 10 p.m. Both the county board of health and outgoing Gov. Steve Bullock’s most recent round of pandemic-related restrictions require bars to close at that time.

    Previously, the mandated closing time was 12:30 a.m. Rocking R Bar owner Mike Hope told Bozeman Police Department Capt. Andy Knight that he was going to remain open until that time despite the newer order, according to court documents.

    The temporary restraining order would have required the bar close at 10 p.m. and would have lasted for 10 days. Brown denied the request because the board’s complaint did not clearly show that the county will “suffer immediate and irrepressible injury” if the temporary restraining order was not issued.

    Can’t you see? Wholesale death and destruction! Bodies piled in the streets! How dare you not bow down before the priests of the plague gods?

    • PieInTheSky

      who is this Gallatin fella ?

  45. Q Continuum

    So.

    I just saw a trailer for “Uncle Frank” on Amazon about the supposed plight of gay people coming out to their bigoted, evil families that should be reeducated/shot (I’m filling in a few plot points here, but I’m sure they’re accurate).

    The funny thing is: this takes place during the ’70/’80s. Last I heard, that was ~40 years ago. Now, I’m not gay. Anyone who’s hung around here for any length of time knows that I am, through no fault of my own, aggressively not gay. Clearly, I have no problems across the board how people like to get their jollies. My question(s): Is it really necessary to travel back in time to have passion plays about coming out/is coming out still so fraught with emotional landmines as it was 40 years ago? I have a hard time believing that any but a tiny minority of people nowadays give a shit about it.

    • rhywun

      It’s a warning that Trumpist hate still has a grip on half of America.

    • prolefeed

      Uncle Frank is actually a pretty good movie, IMO. YMMV.

    • Nephilium

      I’ve got a friend who was disowned by her family when she came out. It still happens.

    • Fatty Bolger

      It happened, it was reality for a lot of people. There’s nothing wrong with revisiting the past.

      However, one thing I do find annoying is that that we’re supposed to believe that today’s woke assholes and slavers would have been the understanding, tolerant, anti-slavers in the past. Yeah, right.

      • Ted S.

        Yeah, look at how they treat Peter Thiel.

  46. Fatty Bolger

    Flipping through radio stations early this morning, I learned a few things:

    1. Early Sunday is apparently when most stations do their PSA broadcasting.
    2. COVID is supposedly airborne, and mostly transmitted indoors on very tiny aerosols, not the droplets masks are supposed to stop.
    3. The Governor has issued a stay at home order, asking everybody to stay indoors. ?‍♂️

    Oh, and

    4: We should wear masks in spite of #2, even though they are admittedly less than 100 percent effective. (True, 0% is less than 100%, can’t argue with that.)

    • PieInTheSky

      The Governor knows best

  47. The Late P Brooks

    The Rocking R Bar had also received over $71,000 in state COVID relief funds as of late October. Bullock has announced additional aid for businesses in financial tough spots because of COVID-19 related shutdowns, but has said that money will only be doled out to businesses that follow the mandates.

    Only good little boys and girls get cake.

  48. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    The world continues to be retarded.

    You People continue to be a bastion of hope. So thanks for that.

    So the states are realizing that shutting down businesses has consequences. Should be fun to get the tax increases for 2021. My state is so breathtakingly brazen I’m sure it will be a size-able bump to property taxes to pay for the closed schools.

    Bastards.

    Oh well, let’s get out there and enjoy our Sundays, huh?

    • Ownbestenemy

      It was a nice weekend. Worked in the garage a bit, put up some Christmas stuff.

      Got to do some oil changes on the generator, hang some ceiling in the grooming trailer later today.

      Regardless of the world around me, it is a good day.

    • Q Continuum

      Had myself a Bloody Maria, now I might just head down the hill to the liquor store and pick up some Asahi. Just for the helluvit.

      • Nephilium

        Had a light breakfast, getting ready to walk up to the local bar to watch the Browns play. Have to go back to work tomorrow (not the office, just work), but at least I’ve still got a job that’s paying me.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ugh that reminds me..have to go in two hours early tomorrow.

      • Nephilium

        I’ve already triple checked that all my alarms are turned back on again.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    From a Bozeman Chronicle I won’t bother linking:

    The Rockin’ R will have its sympathizers among those who have objected to mask mandates and other orders claiming they amount to a violation of rights. But the national and state constitutions and the laws emanating from them clearly and rightfully empower health officials to impose restrictions in the interest protecting public health.

    Constitutional scholars, they are.

    I wonder how they would react if Trump’s Department of Justice ordered the newspaper shut down, in the interests of public order and national security.

    • rhywun

      But the national and state constitutions and the laws emanating from them clearly and rightfully empower health officials to impose restrictions in the interest protecting public health.

      Bullshit.

      • Don escaped Two Corinthians

        It is worth questioning one’s local constitution. I have no doubt that most of the immoral actions by my governor were legal, and it is at least partly my fault that he has retained so much power over the years. I live in one of the freest states, but it could be freer.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Maybe State Constitutions in which the legislature debated and voted on such measures, sure. However that isn’t how it is going about.

      The issue at hand is the generous readings of their govorner’s emergency powers that have been taken to extraordinary limits.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    Chronicle editorial, that is.

  51. Ownbestenemy

    The Bee is going to have a fantastic 4-years.

    • TARDis

      If things go the way the commies want, the Bee staff will off to the gulags or unmarked graves in short order.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    However, one thing I do find annoying is that that we’re supposed to believe that today’s woke assholes and slavers would have been the understanding, tolerant, anti-slavers in the past. Yeah, right.

    They are independent thinkers, on the right side of herstory, not hive-mind drones. They would never succumb to peer pressure and the consensus of the day.

  53. CatchTheCarp

    In order to get my blood pressure up I watched some of the Sunday lefty news propaganda on the two big networks. Margaret Brennan who is just barely more tolerable than that asshole Chuck Todd interviewed the mayors of Detroit and Houston. The mayor of Detroit was blaming the big increase in the plague in Detroit on people who live in the suburbs – they weren’t wearing the mask and spread it into the city. Brennan brought up the fact that the coof is more fatal to POC and given that would that change the priority of who receives the vaccine. He wouldn’t take the bait.

    Same with the mayor of Houston. Brennan brought up that Hispanics are more likely to die from the plague and would that change his priority on who should get the vaccine when it becomes available. He didn’t take the bait either.

    Then she asked this stupid question? Is the there already a shortage of vaccine?

    NBC’s Kacy Hunt has a scary looking face… something about her eyes.

    • Ownbestenemy

      When your city has turned a blind eye to this type of behavior it empowers others to engage in it. We stepped back into the time of ruffians and bandits.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I think there’s far more lucrative targets for a dozen armed criminals.

      • blackjack

        Yeah, nobody “robs” a homeless food tent. It was either that they were harassing the kitchen to try and shut them down, or the kitchen just wanted some sympathy and donations before they had to shut themselves down. Portland police are total retards and probably dedicated massive resources to find these dangerous bandits.